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Vol. 1. No. 1.
JULY, 1924.
El
El
JUDGE NOT
W. I. Lively.
Eli
Judge not; thy finite mind is weak ;
Thou canst not balance justice's scales,
Nor weigh the inanimate universe ;
Much less; then, judge thy fellow man.
How canst thou read the motives of
His heart, or separate his errors
And his blundering mistakes
From evil purposes and acts ?
That which seemed a withering curse
May have left his lips a blessing,
Breathed upon the wings of prayer.
Or if thou knewest that his deeds
Were wrong, shouldst thou judge hastily
How canst thou tell the battles fought,
Or 'gainst what odds he met defeat,
Or sound temptation's fiery flood,
Or count the legions which encamped
In dread array against his soul ?
Thou who hast never met the tempter
Face to face, and felt the floods about
Thy feet, if thou hadst wrestled with
The powers of night, as he has done,
Perchance thou, too, had fallen.
Judge not; thou art so liable to err ;
The mists of time so blur thy sight
Thou seest dimly at the best,
And that which seems so clear to thee,
Viewed from thy point of vantage ground,
If seen within thy brother's sphere
Might prove to be so different.
Judge not: or if you judge at all,
Then judge in love and charity.
Judge with the heart, and not the head ;
The impetuous heart is often
Truer than the calculating mind.
Thy heart doth plead against thy will;
Thy heart is right, thy judgment wrong.
Judge others as you judge yourself;
Or as you would that others should.
The measure of your judgment
Give again. Judge as you would when time,
Has sundered far and continents
Have come between. Judge as you would
When on the pulseless breast the ....
Silent hands are folded, and Death
Has sealed the past and Charity
Keeps silent vigil o'er the tomb.
Why will you judge ? Life is so short;
And soon before the " bema " of the Christ
We all shall stand, to judgment called.
Forgive and love, 'tis better far;
Leave judgment to Omniscient God.—Sel.
Atkinson & PolKtt, Printers, Kendal.

^ p
Vol. 1. No. 1.
JULY, 1924.
El
El
JUDGE NOT
W. I. Lively.
Eli
Judge not; thy finite mind is weak ;
Thou canst not balance justice's scales,
Nor weigh the inanimate universe ;
Much less; then, judge thy fellow man.
How canst thou read the motives of
His heart, or separate his errors
And his blundering mistakes
From evil purposes and acts ?
That which seemed a withering curse
May have left his lips a blessing,
Breathed upon the wings of prayer.
Or if thou knewest that his deeds
Were wrong, shouldst thou judge hastily
How canst thou tell the battles fought,
Or 'gainst what odds he met defeat,
Or sound temptation's fiery flood,
Or count the legions which encamped
In dread array against his soul ?
Thou who hast never met the tempter
Face to face, and felt the floods about
Thy feet, if thou hadst wrestled with
The powers of night, as he has done,
Perchance thou, too, had fallen.
Judge not; thou art so liable to err ;
The mists of time so blur thy sight
Thou seest dimly at the best,
And that which seems so clear to thee,
Viewed from thy point of vantage ground,
If seen within thy brother's sphere
Might prove to be so different.
Judge not: or if you judge at all,
Then judge in love and charity.
Judge with the heart, and not the head ;
The impetuous heart is often
Truer than the calculating mind.
Thy heart doth plead against thy will;
Thy heart is right, thy judgment wrong.
Judge others as you judge yourself;
Or as you would that others should.
The measure of your judgment
Give again. Judge as you would when time,
Has sundered far and continents
Have come between. Judge as you would
When on the pulseless breast the ....
Silent hands are folded, and Death
Has sealed the past and Charity
Keeps silent vigil o'er the tomb.
Why will you judge ? Life is so short;
And soon before the " bema " of the Christ
We all shall stand, to judgment called.
Forgive and love, 'tis better far;
Leave judgment to Omniscient God.—Sel.
Atkinson & PolKtt, Printers, Kendal.